July 14, 2008

La Marseillaise (Happy Bastille Day)

At Rick's Cafe Americain in Casablanca, nasty Nazi Major Strasser (Conrad Veidt) leads the stolid German soliders in a patriotic hymn. Resistance fighter Paul Henreid ("Victor Lazlo") find this intolerable and commands the band to play the Marseillaise. It's Rick's place, so the band leader looks at Rick (Humphrey Bogart), who nods his head, bemused, impressed. Go ahead. I won't stop you. The Marseillaise drowns out the German voices. Ingrid Bergman looks radiant. She is Mrs. Victor Lazlo but she and Rick will "always have Paris."

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La Marseillaise (Happy Bastille Day)

At Rick's Cafe Americain in Casablanca, nasty Nazi Major Strasser (Conrad Veidt) leads the stolid German soliders in a patriotic hymn. Resistance fighter Paul Henreid ("Victor Lazlo") find this intolerable and commands the band to play the Marseillaise. It's Rick's place, so the band leader looks at Rick (Humphrey Bogart), who nods his head, bemused, impressed. Go ahead. I won't stop you. The Marseillaise drowns out the German voices. Ingrid Bergman looks radiant. She is Mrs. Victor Lazlo but she and Rick will "always have Paris."